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Art and Decoration of Central New Guinea

Craig, Barry · 1988

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Ayleshire, Bucks, England, Shire Ethnography, 1988. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Volume contains scholarly apparatus ...

Society of Others: Kinship and Mourning in a West Papuan Place

Stasch, Rupert · 2009

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Berkeley, California, University of California, Berkeley, 2009. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A first-rate and compelling ethnography of a West Papua people. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, sh...

Sorcerer and Witch in Melanesia

Stephen, Michele · 1987

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Melbourne University Press, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, il...

The Papuan Languages of New Guinea

Foley, William A. · 1986

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

Cambridge, England, Cambridge University Press, 1986. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor to moderate wear of covers and text-block, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable ...

Reciprocity and the Position of Women: Anthropological Papers

Van Baal, Jan · 1975

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

Assan, the Netherlands, Van Gorcum, 1975. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor wear of covers and text-block, sunning of green to light yellow on spine, light edge-wear, but with neither underlining nor highl...

The Mundugumor: From the Field Notes of Margaret Mead and Reo Fortune

McDowell, Nancy · 1991

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. From the personal l...

Not Quite So Simple

Hatfield, Mark · 1968

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

New York, Harper & Row, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by the author boldly at first free endpaper. Stated First Edition, bound simply in brick-red cloth over boards, sharp and distinct gilt and black lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust j...

Waterfront

Schulberg, Budd · 1955

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, Random House, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First Edition, another fine novel by the author of What Makes Sammy Run? and The Disenchanted. The novel that becamse On the Waterfront. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little d...

That Pup

Butler, Ellis Parker · 1909

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

New York, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1909. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: 16mo 6" - 7" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format exemplar of a beloved vintage children's book, one that originated in short story form in the American Magazine, clean, lightl...

Keep This Sex out of My Sight: The Undisplayable of Female Sex As Revealed by Women

Zabunyan, Elvan, And Bertini, Marie Joseph, And Gange, Francoise · 2003

$36.00 (€32.66 | £27.25 | ¥5,749)

Paris, France, Editions Dis Voir, 2003. . . . Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear beyond a small remainder dot along bottom edge. From the publisher's blurb, "Ever since women ...

Myth of the West

Bruce, Chris · 1990

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New York / Seattle, Rizzoli / Henry Art Center, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Exhibition catalogue from a show that featured the works spanning 1832 to 1989 and artists as varied as George Catlin, Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Moran, Charles Russell, Ge...

The American Annual of Photography, 1938, Volume 52

Fraprie, Frank R., ed. · 1938

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Boston, Massachusetts, American Photographic Publishing Co., 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, two-tone, pumpkin and black cloth over boards, sharply distinct lettering to spine and front cover, cl...

Travels with Cole Porter

Howard, Jean · 1991

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear to the bright red cloth over boards, sharp and distinct lettering to spine, bright and shiny dust jacket, thick flap...

Lust: Kinky Online Personal Ads

Forney, Ellen · 2008

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Seattle, Washington, Fantagraphics Books, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Square 16mo 6" - 7" tall. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear to the glossy pictorial covers in white, black and red. Brilliantly illustrated endpapers front...

Tom Brown's School Days

An Old Boy (Thomas Hughes) · 1911

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Harper & Brothers, 1911. . Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Augmented with the fine illustrations of W. Louis Rhead, this is a perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Big, oversized Imperial octavo hardcover copy, bound in li...

Little Lord Fauntleroy

Burnett, Frances Hodgson · 1919

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1919. . Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Augmented with the fine illustrations of Ronald Birch, includng at frontis, tissue-guarded, this is a perfectly serviceable reference copy of a justifiable classic in children's literature; nothing...

The Wings of the Morning

Tracy, Louis · 1924

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

Chicago, The John C. Winston Company, 1924. Reprnt. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Augmented with the fine illustrations of Mead Schaeffer, this is a perfectly serviceable reference copy of a justifiable classic in children's literature; nothing fancy, but complete and s...

A Child's Garden of Verse

Stevenson, Robert Louis · 1917

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1917. . Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Augmented with the fine illustrations of Jessie Willcox Smith and a positively delightful pasted in gift illustration of the recipient of this tome at Christmas of 1918, one "Elizabeth," this is a ...

Postwar British Fiction: New Accents and Attitudes

Gindin, James · 1962

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean but for remainder mark along bottom edge, unmarked of interior, minimal rubbing to extremities,...

The Body: Photographs of the Human Form

Ewing, William A. · 1994

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, Chronicle Books, 1994. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the glossy pictorial card-stock wraps, in gate-fold, ...